How my buddy and his attorney look at me after eating a piece of blotter the size of a postage stamp and snatching a bat out of the air while going 85 MPH through the desert. I cannot explain more, I have bats to deal with.

#batcountry #lsd #huntersthompson #drgonzo

P.S. ... No matter what the attorney says, do not take two hits out of the brown bottle in his shaving kit.

> IN ANY CASE, we live in different times, by different standards, and we have different hopes for our children. They will learn to be afraid of Everything, which is pitiful. Life in the Fourth Reich will not be easy, for most of them. They will ride fast motorcycles and have a lot of sex, and that will be just about it.
—Hunter S. Thompson, Boys on the Bus (1973), reprint (2003) foreword
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#hunterSThompson

Happy Derby Day everyone!
#KentuckyDerby #HunterSThompson #Decadent&Depraved #RalphSteadman #ChunderRoad
http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf

Today In Labor History April 8, 1935: Oscar Zeta Acosta was born on this day. Acosta was a Chicano lawyer, writer and activist in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He wrote Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973). He was good friends with Hunter S. Thompson, who called him “My Samoan Attorney,” in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in Mexico in 1974. He is assumed dead.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #chicano #OscarZetaOcosta #HunterSThompson #mexico #literature #fiction #writer #books #author #writer #losangeles @bookstadon

These were the most #popular #tshirts of the week from www.harleywarren.com

And as a bonus the #sale continues over at our #teepublicshop

#resist #trump #musk #huntersthompson #skull #wwdits #dude ##tshirtshop #tshirtsale #discount #bargain #support #art #artist #artwork

Useless quote for 9 Mar:

"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning ... And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil ..."

~ Hunter S. Thompson, in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", 1971

https://substack.com/inbox/post/157501020?r=1uhjhs&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
#huntersthompson #ChunderRoad

Today in Labor History January 31, 1971: For the second time in six months, rioting broke out during an anti-war protest in East Los Angeles. Police fired into the crowd, killing one protester. The anti-war demonstrations were organized by the Chicano Moratorium. Chicanos were dying at a higher rate during the Vietnam War than white Americans. During the August 29, 1970 protests, police killed three people, including Journalist and Civil Rights activist Ruben Salazar. Oscar Zeta Acosta portrayed Salazar in his 1973 novel, “The Revolt of the Cockroach People.” Hunter S. Thompson portrayed Acosta as his “Samoan attorney” in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Salazar was the first Mexican journalist for a mainstream newspaper (L.A. Times) to write about the Chicano community. He also worked as the Times’ bureau chief in Mexico City and covered both the Tlatelolco Massacre and the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic, both in 1965. Because of his outspoken support for the Chicano movement, and his criticism of racism and police abuse against the Chicano community, he was a target of FBI surveillance. Many believe his death was an assassination.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #RubenSalazar #chicano #moratorium #antiwar #riot #policebrutality #police #huntersthompson #journalism #vietnam #eastla #losangeles #racism #freepress #oscarzetaocosta #books #fiction #novel #writer #author @bookstadon

I have nothing to say about it that wasn't said better by the good Dr #HunterSThompson over 20 years ago

I have nothing to say about it that wasn't said better by the good Dr #HunterSThompson over 20 years ago
#HST

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Where The Buffalo Roam (The Original Movie Soundtrack)
1980 Canada pressing

A bunch of Neil Young, some Hendrix, a little CCR… what else could you possibly need?

By the way, I’ve always said that this movie is superior to Fear and Loathing in every way.
Bill’s Hunter was far better than Depp’s, & the latter film always seemed more cartoonish & buffoonish. It had a few moments, but in no world is it better than WTBR.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #huntersthompson #gonzo #80s #80smovies

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Wisdom #Quotes #HunterSThompson #Life #Weirdness

#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

@StephenRamirez
Where's Hunter S. Thompson now, when we need him?
#USPolitics #USWriters #HunterSThompson #TuckersBalls

#RalphSteadman, famous for his scabrous work with #HunterSThompson, is having a retrospective at 88

He was motivated to depict politicians because “so many of them were just full of bullshit.”

His portraits included Richard #Nixon as half-pig, half-man with faeces flying out of his rear; a Dracula-like Ronald #Reagan dancing with a fearful Statue of Liberty; and racist politician Enoch Powell as a fly sitting on a pile of excrement.

In the past Steadman described his pen as a weapon, an object which would torment the subjects of his scribbles. Now, he says, “it’s more of a gentle fun machine.”

#GiftLink
https://on.ft.com/3TAi9Gh

Nigel Finch's 50-minute 1978 #documentary of #HunterSThompson and #RalphSteadman.

Titled "Fear And Loathing In Gonzovision" at the beginning and "Fear And Loathing On The Road To Hollywood With Dr. Hunter S. Thompson And Ralph Steadman" at the end. Just like #HST himself, things would change as he moved through it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laamYjSwcHI

This is my Sharkey #introduction

You can call me Dane.

I started out on the fediverse arooooound...I wanna say 2017/18 mebbe? My big start in social media was MySpace. Before that, I had a LiveJournal (which I miss mightily with all my heart). My very first computer was a Gateway PC, back when they shipped them to you in those awesome cow spot pattern boxes. I am trying to de-google my life.

I'm #ADHD and suffer from #dysthymia. I'm currently unmedicated. I can be damned moody at times, so there's your warning.

Religiously/spiritually speaking, I'm complicated. That will be a long post, when I get around to writing it. My general rule is: I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, and that's cool. Not everybody's thing is my thing, and that's cool. Just don't be a wanker towards those whose thing ain't your thing. OM

I'm 57 years old and have come to the conclusion that we never truly appreciate the decades we grew up in until we hit middle age.

I'm single and childless, hence my user tag: TheLastOfHisName.

And now, a hefty list of hashtags....

#music
#thebeatles #grunge #oldschoolcountrymusic #classicalmusic #tomwaits #jeffbuckley #blindmelon #stonetemplepilots #90salternative #80sbands #ledzeppelin #jazz #experimentalmusic #laurieanderson #yes #themoodyblues #art #mcescher #albrechtdurer #johannesvermeer #mariaabramovic #technology #linux #linuxmint #android #kurtvonnegut #huntersthompson #jdsalinger #emilydickinson #waltwhitman #henrydavidthoreau #scifi #fantasy #film #indiefilms #writing #microfic #irishheritage #gaeilge #foss #mastodon #sharkey #pixelfed #cats #dogs #animallover #vegetarian #ttrpgs #dnd #rolemaster #spacemaster #runequest #travellerrpg #gaming #elderscrollsonline #guildwars2 #skyrim

Nazi punks fuckoff.
#Ally to POC, LGBTQIA, and humanity in general.
#FreePalestine

A song to represent where I'm coming from:
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=v99HbgVHD5Y

Today In Labor History April 8, 1935: Oscar Zeta Acosta was born on this day. Acosta was a Chicano lawyer, writer and activist in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He wrote Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973). He was good friends with Hunter S. Thompson, who called him “My Samoan Attorney,” in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in Mexico in 1974. He is assumed dead.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #chicano #OscarZetaOcosta #HunterSThompson #mexico #literature #fiction #writer #books #author #writer #losangeles @bookstadon